Massachusetts General Laws
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 276, § 56 (2026)
Filing of order; delivery to jail keeper; discharge as bar to civil action
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Section 56. Such order discharging the recognizance, indictment or complaint of the person or the recognizance of witnesses shall be filed in the office of the clerk before the sitting of the court at which they are bound to appear; and such order superseding the commitment of the person charged or of a witness shall be delivered to the keeper of the jail where he is confined, who shall forthwith discharge him; and such order, so filed and delivered, shall forever bar a civil action for such injury.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 1
case, 1937–1937 · leading case: Dardzinski v. Angelus, 2 Mass. App. Div. 47 (Mass. Dist. Ct., App. Div. 1937).
Dardzinski v. Angelus, 2 Mass. App. Div. 47 (Mass. Dist. Ct., App. Div. 1937). “That where a plaintiff, a minor, signs a release of all claims and demands, such release when properly pleaded and proved is a bar to an action brought by the father as next friend of the minor for the same cause of action released by the minor.”
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